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  1. Surely... on Bram Cohen to Release BitTorrent Search Engine · · Score: 1

    ...anyone can build a web site based searching system that searches through the distributed DB and builds a cache for faster searching?!

    Shouldn't be too hard, /me starts painting a big target on his forhead.

    Jan

  2. Obligatory Ogg Vorbis moan... on iTunes 4.9 To Support Podcasting · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ogg Vorbis support might be nice, since it's one of the better streaming formats available...

    Listening tests:

    HydrogenAudio - The Autov tweaks made it into the official releases. (1.1)

    (I can't find anymore at the moment, feel free to add your codec tests. The tests done via HydrogenAudio are generally considered to be solid.

    Thanks

    Jan

  3. Re:Forget video support... on The Video iPod is on its Way · · Score: 1

    Ogg Integer only decoder was called Tremor. It is available under the BSD license from here: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/

    I think the iRiver H300 series also supports Ogg.

    So no need to bung an expensive new CPU in the iPod, and no need to spend money building an Integer only decoder :)

    Thanks

    Jan

  4. Forget video support... on The Video iPod is on its Way · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Give us support for more Audio formats. Namely Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MPC and the like. Official support for this in iTunes and on the iPod is definately possible with the new generation of chips making their way into the new iPod's. For example, the iPod shuffle (please slap me if I am wrong) features the next processor up from the one used in the Rio Karma, which supports a plethora of audio formats which includes Ogg Vorbis and FLAC.

    A question I always had tho, is Ogg support out the question due to Licensing Issues?! I always guessed not due to the fact that the Rio Karma has done it :D I understand that Ogg support was not possible before due to the sheer lack of horsepower to process the Vorbis streams, but now?! Please Apple, its the only thing holding me back from buying an iPod :)

    Surely it wouldn't take them that long to code Vorbis support?! :)

    Anyway, back to work.

    Jan

  5. Seems a lot speedier... on Firefox 1.1 Boasts New Features · · Score: 1

    Just installed the latest Trunk build (2005.05.07) and pages like http://www.warp2search.net/ scroll a hell of a lot quicker.

    I don't use tabs that much, so I can't comment on that :)

    Thanks

    Jan

  6. Who could forget... on Genre-Defining Games? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    FPS/RPG: System Shock 2

    Absolutely ground breaking game, just not accepted widely enough :(

    Jan

  7. hhhmmm... on People are More Accepting of Spam · · Score: 2, Funny

    Appeasement never works. See World War 2.

    Jan

  8. Re:Can I update FC3 to FC4 Test 1 using yum? on Red Hat Fedora Core 4 Test 1 Now Available · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have done it before, its really straight forward, just update fedora-release, update to corresponding version of yum, run yum upgrade, and reboot, and enjoy the new version.

    I am even confident enough to do it over SSH.

    Thanks

    Jan

  9. Re:Can I update FC3 to FC4 Test 1 using yum? on Red Hat Fedora Core 4 Test 1 Now Available · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, just update the to the relevent fedora-release rpm and make sure the yum version of FC4T1's version, and run yum upgrade Jan